The sixth part of the Consent Event video series is CONSENT, COERCION, AND THE INTERNET. In this video, technologist Mindy Seu explains how social media applications use speed and allure to coerce consent from their “users”.
Mindy Seu is an American designer and researcher whose work focuses on public engagement with digital archives. Seu is currently on the Faculty at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and also teaches at the Yale School of Art. She is the author of the upcoming book Cyberfeminism Index.
This is just one video in the Pornhub & Pillow Talk Consent Event series, so stay tuned for more installments here or watch them all now on Vimeo.
CONSENT EVENT: an intimate, roundtable discussion between a tapestry of influential artists, cultural figures, activists, and academics exploring consent and the multitude of ways it shows up in our lives.
Pornhub regards consent as one of its core values and upholds it as part of its operating principles. We are proud to partner with Pillow Talk to make this important and comprehensive discussion possible. See more about Pornhub’s commitment to trust & safety.
CONSENT EVENT was conceived, directed + hosted by scholar and editor Esra Soraya Padgett alongside author and the founder of Pillow Talk, Fiona Alison Duncan in June of 2022.
Pillow Talk is a femme and LGBTQ+ centered event and exhibition series, the spinoff of Duncan’s successful literary salon Hard to Read.
Esra Padgett is a linguistic anthropologist who has written on the subject of consent, censorship and obscenity, as well as sexuality and pornography more generally.
Credits:
Videography by Minnie Bennett, Cruz Mendez, Charlie Freiberg
Graphic design by Chloe Maratta
Photography by Nick Sethi (portraits) + Sam Penn (party)
Illustrations by Elizabeth Williams